Re: A maze of twisty mailing lists all the same

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> Perhaps further clarifying the charters of the various lists would
> help, but folding too much into any one list is likely to reduce the
> number of readers or cause "spotty" attention. (When I was
> attempting to follow all the lists, I'd typically give up when I
> fell about 6000 messages behind, and try to start up again "cold"
> after having missed a big interval of messages.)

I don't quite agree with this, because -general is *already* at the level
where it takes a significant chunk of daily time to keep up with it.
All the other mergeable lists pale in comparison to its volume.
I stopped trying to read lists completely a time ago, and merely read
subject lines at this point, diving into ones that seem interesting
or important.

Merging the smaller lists that have a huge overlap of topics with -general
already would thus be a win, as there would be a larger audience to
reply to, and less lists to administer and have people keep track of.
It would also reduce the confusion of "which list should I post this to?"

I think -admin should absolutely be folded in, -sql really should as well,
and slightly less so -performance and -interfaces.

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